Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

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Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Sumner County, Tennessee, son of Edmund Browning and Sarah Allen. Early life; conversion to Mormonism in Adams County, Illinois, 1840; labor there as the justice of the peace; removal with his family to Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842; service of his brother, Orvill H. Browning as defense attorney for Joseph Smith; exodus west; manufacture of guns and service on the high council in Council Bluffs, Iowa; journey across the plains, 1852; settlement in Ogden, Utah; service as a bishop's counselor, and on a high council; activities as a memberof the city council, justice of the peace and member of the territorial legislature.

2 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

Harold B. Lee Library

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